Vitaly Portnikov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Tomorrow the folklore group "Buranovsky grandmothers" will represent Russia in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. For many viewers, not even the age of Russian contestants can become a revelation, but what they speak in Russian with an accent and can communicate with each other in a completely different language.

Svetlana Robenkova. Shot from the program "Internet in Persons" Blogger Svetlana Robenkova, who spoke about an accident involving the machine of Vice President Gazprombank Alexander Schmidt, turned to the prosecutor's office in connection with the disclosure of her personal data.

Dagir Khasavov. Photo from the site Drakonta.ru A criminal case has been instituted against the lawyer Dagira Khasavov under part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity), the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports.

Picket against bureaucratic poaching. Photo by Evgenia Mikheeva/Brani.ru The police intend to check all the owners of the Robinson R44 brand helicopters during an investigation into a case of poaching hunting in the Altai Reserve, RIA Novosti reports. Unknown people shot a moose from the side of the helicopter, loaded the carcass and flew away in an unknown direction. The huntsman who became an eyewitness managed to remove the crime on the cell phone camera.

Yekaterinburg, May 2012. Promotion #Occupyekb.

Sergey Udaltsov in a camp on Kitay-Gorod. Photo by V. Maximyuk/Grani.ru In Ulyanovsk, the process began in the case of the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, reports Radio Liberty. He is accused of beating a local student, activist of the Prochrevsky movement "Young Guard" Anna Pozdnyakova.

Prosecutor General of Russia. Photo by the border.ru The Prosecutor General’s Office created in its structure a specialized department for the supervision of compliance with the rights of entrepreneurs, proposed by Dmitry Medvedev. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported by the official representative of the department Marina Gridneva.

Konstantin Kostin. Photo: Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant The head of the domestic policy department of the Presidential Administration Konstantin Kostin will soon leave his post, a source in the Kremlin told RIA Novosti. "Kostin will soon leave the department and head the civil society development fund, the founders of which will be a number of public organizations," the agency’s interlocutor said.

May 24, 2012. Alexei Navalny, after 15 days of arrest, meets with the participants of the mobile camp. Photographed by Eduard Glezin.

Vladimir Abarinov Probably, nowhere in the world, opera art is not subjected to such fierce attacks of the highly moraine public as in Russia. Seven years ago, indignant fighters with soullessness pounced on the opera Leonid Titmnikov on the libretto of Vladimir Sorokin "Children of Rosental".

The emblem of the US State Department The US State Department has sharply criticized Russian elections. In the annual report on the observance of human rights and the fundamental freedoms in different countries of the world, the main problems of Russia named not free elections, a corrupt judicial system and violation of freedom of speech.

"Occupyarbat". Photo of Radio Liberty The opposition camp on Arbat is again trying to disperse. According to blog activists, the police major and the “local government representative” asked to free the territory at the monument to Bulat Okudzhava, calling “garbage and things laid out on the street”. So far, activists do not leave Arbat, expecting the further development of events.

Riot police in the cult pub "John Donn." Photo by Leo Parkhomenko Four OMON employees who were more serious than the rest on May 6 in Bolotnaya Square received two -room apartments. This was announced in his blog by the head of the trade union of law enforcement officers Mikhail Pashkin. He noted that there are several "strokes" in OMON, which, they believe, are the coolest - they are athletes. "Walking to Bolotnaya, they simply did not take helmets. So one got on the head.

Andrey Lukyanov leaves the police department. Photo from the Facebook page OVD info The director of the advertising agency Andrei Lukyanov, who was detained by confusing the leader of the war group "War" by Oleg Vorotnikov, appealed to the Investigative Committee with a request to institute criminal proceedings against police officers. This was reported to Interfax by lawyer Lukyanova Vasily Kushnir.

Oleg Morozov. Frame of Channel One The Vice Speaker of the State Duma Oleg Morozov was appointed head of the domestic policy department of the presidential administration. Previously held this position, Konstantin Kostin was dismissed, the Kremlin press service reports. Morozov, a former employee of the apparatus of the CPSU Central Committee, became a deputy of the State Duma in 1994, having elected a single -mandate district in Tatarstan.